Engine-starter.



M.v MBLLER-ZAKOMBLSKY.

ENGINE STARTER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 18, 1913.

1,101,465, Patented June 23, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

s MICHEL MELLERZAKO1VIELSKY, OF NEW YORK, N Y.

ENGINE-STARTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed November 18, 1913. Serial No. 801,647.

of Queens and State of New York, have in. vented a new and ImprovedEngine-Starter,v

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has special reference to an improved starter for internalcombustion engines and more particularly to a device which is adaptedfor use in connection with automobiles.

The essential object of the invention is evolved in the provision of astarter which will permit the starting of the engine to secure initialcompression and explosion from the chauffeurs seat, thus obviating thenecessity of getting out of the car and turning the engine over by meansof the usual crank, as well as permitting instant control of thethrottle levers to regulate the speed of the engine or motor.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists ofcertain novel combinations with arrangements of parts as will behereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a.fragmentary portion of an automobile, with one side thereof broken awayto vdisclose the improved starter; Fig. 2 is a plan view of thestructure shown in Fig. 1, the foot board being broken away to disclosethe starter and af portion of the latter being indicated` in section;Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the starter, with a portionthereof in section; Fig. 1 is a sectional View taken on the line .L-i ofFig. 3; Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5 5 of F ig.. 3;Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 3, with thelever in the shifted position; Fig. 7 is a plan View of the starter withthe operating lever in section; and Fig. S is a rear elevation of thedevice shown in Fig. 7

In illustrating the preferred embodiment and application of theinvention, a .fragmentary portion 10 of an automobile. is shown, havingthe usual hood 11, housing the engine or motor 12, the drive shaft ofwhich is provided with the usual fly wheel 13. In the present instance,the car is shown as having a closed body, from the chauffeur-s seat ofwhich the usual steering wheel 14- is conveniently operable for steeringthe vehicle. At the present time, it is general to alight from the oarand to start the motor or turn over the saine by means of a crank at thefront of the hood and this requires a great deal of time, as well asdistracting the operators attention from the vthrottle leverscontrolling the ruiming of the engine so that the engine might undulyspeed up. In the present device, I obviate these objections bypermitting the engine to be started from the cliaufleurs seat withoutalighting from the car and permitting the chauffeurs attention to thecontrol of the engine or motor, whereby it may be prevented froin undulyspeeding. For this purpose the fly wheel 13 has a beveled gear wheel 15attached thereto at the rear edge, while supported by means of adepending bracket 16, carried transversely beneath the foot board 17 ofthe car, is a shaft 18, the same being journaled in the grooves 19 ofinclined bearings 20, supported upon uprights 21, the latter beingpreferably reniovably mounted on the bracket 16. The bearings 20, thegrooves 19 of which coininunicate with the inner sides thereof, areprovided with depending barrels or cylindrical portions 22, which `arepreferably threaded into the bearings as shown in Fig. 4 of thedrawings. The ends of the shaft 1S rest upon bearing blocks 23 havingdepending stems 24, around which coiled springs 25 are disposed withinthe barrels, the said springs tending to normally elevate the saidblocks and shaft therewith to the top of the grooves in the bearings.Fixed to the shaft 18 is a segmental rack or beveled gear 26, which isadapted to move into or out of engagement, or in mesh with the beveledgear 15, as will be hereinafter described.

Supported upon one of the bearings 20 is a segmental guide plate 27, thesame being spaced from the bearing and stationed by means of sidesupports 28. This guide plate tapers from its rear to its forward endand in its inner face, is provided with upper and lower grooves 29 and30 located on arcs concentric to the shaft 18 when in raised or loweredpositions respectively, in the grooves of the bearings. These groovesprovide an intermediate or dividing wall 31, which also tapers towardthe for ward end of the plate, while communicating passages 32 and 33are provided at the ends of the grooves 29 and 30. Carried by the endwalls of the groove plate and projecting into the area of thecommunicating grooves 82 and 33, are beveled stops or bolts 34- and 35,the same being movable 1n openings 36 in said walls. rlhese openings areclosed by plugs 37, between which and the stops, springs 38 are mounted,said springs preferably being of V form and designed to exert pressureagainst the stops for forcing the same into the area of communicatinggrooves 32 and 33 respectively. The stop 311 is beveled upwardly and thestop 35 is beveled downwardly, whereby a lever 39, which is fixed to theshaft 1S adjacent to the segmental guide plate as regards its horizontaldisposition, through the instrumentality of a lateral projecting detent40, which engages the grooves, may be guided backward and forward in theplate during the upward and downward movement of the shaft in startingthe motor and in permitting the moto-r with the beveled gear 15, torotate independent of the segmental gear 26.

In the operation of the device, we will consider that the motor is atrest and that it is desired to start the same. For this purpose lever 39which has a grasping portion at its upper end, will be disposed in aforward position as shown in Fig. 1 and in solid lines in Fig. 3, sothat the segmental beveled gear 26 will be in mesh with the beveled gear15. that the shaft 18 is at the bottom of the grooves in the bearings20, which are inclined toward the fly wheel and beveled gear carriedthereby, thus shifting the segmental rack or gear 26 forwardly in meshwith the beveled gear 15 when the detent 40 is at one corner of therelatively rectangular continuous groove in the plate, or at the cornerproduced by the intersection of the grooves 30 and 33 respectively. Inthis position, the stop 35 will prevent the lever from rising bypressure of the springs 25 against the shaft and by exerting a quickrearward pull upon the lever, the latter will ride rearwardly with thedetent moving through the groove 30, so as to impart rotation to the flywheel and engine shaft for the purpose of causing an inward compressionand explosion for starting the same. At the instant that the lever 39reaches the near end of the groove 30, the springs 25 will operate toraise the shaft and shift the segmental gear 26 rearwardly and upwardlyout of mesh with the gear 15, the detent engaging the beveled wall ofthe stop 34, so as to depress the latter against the action of thesprings 38, so that the detent will pass into the upper groove. Then theshaft 1S is disposed at the lower ends of the bearings 20, the groove 30which is concentric to the shaft at such point, will permit the detentThis is due to the fact4 40 to pass freely therethrough, while when thedetent 40 is engaged in the upper groove :29, the shaft will have movedto the upper part of the bearings, in which position the groove 29 isconcentric to the center of the shaft, the centers thus changing as thelever is shifted. The lever remains in this position after the engine isstarted and to again start the engine when necessary', the lever isthrust forward to cause the detent 40 to travel in the groove 29 whilethe segmental gear 26 is still out of mesh with the gear 15, but bylowering or pushing down on the lever, the detent 40 will engage thebeveled well of the stop 35, to depress the latter against the action ofthe spring 38, the detent passing into the lower groove through thecommunicating groove 33 and being held from upper displacement by thestop. The gears are now in mesh and by pulling rearwardly on the leverin the manner hereinbefore described, rotation may be again imparted tothe motor shaft. The segmental guide plate 9.7, as shown in Fig. 1, isprojecting through a hood in the foot board, but it is obvious that itmay be disposed in any other relative position, the essential featurebeing the operation of the starting mechanism from the chauffeurs seatand by the specific means enumerated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In an engine starter, a combination with an engine shaft and flywheel thereof; of a gear fixed to the fly wheel, a depending bracketadapted to be supported from the chassis of an automobile, uprightshaving inclined grooved bearings, a shaft j ournaled in said bearingsand movable in the grooves, a segmental gear fixed to the shaftextending in juxtaposition to the first-mentioned gear, a segmentalguide plate carried by one of the bearings and having a continuousgroove, provided with upper portions located on arcs concentric to theshaft when in raised and lowered positions, a lever fixed to the shaftand having a detent operating in the groove, said shaft when loweredcauschassis of an automobile, uprights having pull upon the lever willimpart rotation to the engine shaft, stops at the ends of the groovesdesigned to permit the detent to pass downwardly at the forward end ofthe plate and upwardly at the rear end of the plate, but to preventopposite movement thereof in the groove, barrelsy carried by thebearings, and springs in the ballers acting on the ends of the shaftjournaled `therein for normally elevating the latter, to cause thedetent to pass from the lower portion to the upper portion of the grooveto disengage the gears at the end of the operative stroke.

3. The combination with an engine shaft of bearings supported adjacentthereto, a shaft movable in the bearings, drive connections between theengine shaft and the second-mentioned shaft adapted upon movement of thesecond-mentioned shaft in the bearings to be engaged and disengaged,means for normally elevating the secondnamed shaft in the bearings, alever connected to the second-named shaft, and a guide engaged by thelever to permit movement of the shaft by means thereof when the shaft isin raised or lowered osition.

4;. An engine starter comprlsing the combination with the crank shaft ofan internal combustion motor; of a shaft adapted to be geared to thecrank shaft, means supporting the shaft for movement to permit the sameto move into and out of operative position, a lever fixed to the shaft,a guide having a groove coperating with a portion of the lever andlimiting forward and rearward movement thereof when in raised or loweredpositions, and means communicating with the groove at the ends of theguide to permit the lever to be depressed at the forward limit and tohold the lever against upward displacement, while permitting upwarddisplacement of the lever at the rear end of the groove and preventingthe downward displacement thereof.

5. The combination with a motor vehicle having an internal combustionmotor and the crank shaft of the motor having a fly wheel; of a gear Xedto the fly wheel, a shaft, a segmental gear carried by the shaft andcoperating with the first-mentioned gear, and means movably supportingthe shaft for elevation in an inclined direction and permitting the sameto be rotated for imparting rotation to the crank shaft through theintermeshed gears and permitting disengagement of the gears at apredetermined point.

In witness whereof I have signed my name to this specication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHEL IIELLER-ZAKOMELSKY.

Witnesses:

PERCY SMITH, J. EDWIN BURoH.

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